17 aThe light of Israel will become a fire,
and bhis Holy One a flame,
and cit will burn and devour
his thorns and briers din one day.
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Isaiah 37:23
“‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
Isaiah 27:4
I have no wrath.
Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Nahum 1:10
For they are like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Isaiah 9:14
So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail,
palm branch and reed in one day—
2 Kings 19:35
And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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